Past events

• 29 Apr. 2024, 15:15-17:00

  Decorative Colonialism: Coconut Cups and the Crafting of the Early Modern Atlantic

  Guest lecture by Professor Benjamin Schmidt.

• 25 Apr. 2024, 15:00-16:30

  Frameworks for Studying Digital Culture

  In this Thursday Salon, members of the Digital Culture Research Cluster will discuss how digital technologies both work in continuation of and introduce new questions to cultural research.

• 23 Apr. 2024, 15:15-17:00

  The Night Shift

  A Lecture by Helen Molesworth.

• 18 Apr. 2024, 14:15-16:00

  Artist talk with Marina Abramović

  Artist talk with Marina Abramović on the occasion of her receiving the Sonning Prize 2023.

• 11 Apr. 2024, 10:00-12:00

  Making Music in the Age of Information Capitalism

  Public lecture by D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds.

• 2 Apr. 2024, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #28: Orit Halpern

  This talk traces the relationship between neo-liberal thought and neural networks through the work of economist Friedrich Hayek, psychologist Donald O. Hebb,  neural network pioneer Frank Rosenblatt, and later the architecture collective Asymptote's design of the virtual trading floor for the NYSE.  

• 21 Mar. 2024, 15:00-16:30

  Thursday Salon

  The IKK Thursday Salons are informal seminars where IKK's research clusters present new research and invite participants informally to engage in criticism and development of ideas.

• 21 Mar. 2024, 9:00-13:00

  Communities of Separatism

  This seminar marks the end of the research project Communities of Separatism. Affects in and around separatist artist collectives in the Nordic region.

• 18 Mar. 2024

  Literary Studies at KU: Projects, Practices, Provocations

  Every year Stefanie Heine, Maria Damkjær and Tina Lupton gather literature researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for a collegiate conference.

• 15 Mar. 2024, 13:00

  Reconfigurations of Human-AI Companionship

  PhD defence by Semahat Ece Elbeyi.

• 15 Mar. 2024, 10:00-17:00

  Things ceasing to be: Cormac McCarthy’s environmental vision

  One-day symposium.

• 13 Mar. 2024, 15:00-17:30

  Seminar on literature and the environment

  Seminar with Professor Jay Watson (University of Mississippi) and Professor Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa).

• 27 Feb. 2024, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #27: Luisa Lorenza Corna & Frida Sandström

  This forum Lecture follows the polyphonous model of Rivolta Femminile and consists of two joint presentations by Frida Sandström and Luisa Lorenza Corna.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 13:00

  Picture the Sky: Cosmic Code, Images, and Imaginaries

  PhD defence by Nanna Debois Buhl.

• 23 Feb. 2024, 13:00

  Art Tactics Transforming Public Spaces in Commercial Environments: A Comparative Study in China and Denmark

  PhD defence by Shuang Fei.

• 22 Feb. 2024, 15:00-17:00

  Is laughter really the best medicine?

  Talk by Lyombe Eko, author of award-winning book The Charlie Hebdo Affair and Comparative Journalistic Cultures (2019), and William S. Morris Professor.

• 2 Feb. 2024, 12:30-17:00

  Decolonising the Camera: Photography and Lens-based Art from Greenland and the Arctic

  This seminar is organized on the occasion of Inuuteq Storch being selected by the Danish Arts Foundation to exhibit at the Venice Biennale 2024.

• 31 Jan. 2024, 15:30-17:00

  Writing a transcultural history of art in the GDR

  Lecture by Kerstin Schankweiler (TU Dresden).

• 18 Jan. 2024, 13:00-14:00

  How to apply for a PhD at IKK

  How to apply for a PhD at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK).

• 5 Jan. 2024, 13:00

  Organising, Exhibiting and Curating (in) Solidarity

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Line Ellegaard

• 11 Dec. - 12 Dec. 2023

  With and Against the Current: Exploring Hydrofeminism(s)

  This symposium brings together transdisciplinary researchers, artists and writers who have inquired into and been inspired by watery histories and subjectivities.

• 8 Dec. 2023, 13:00-17:00

  Georges Perec's Translated Places

  Trilingual Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

• 29 Nov. 2023, 15:00-16:30

  Listening to Songlines, Sila & Sonic Agency

  Ania Mauruschat, MSCA fellow at the Sound Studies Lab, UCPH presents research findings on diverse sonic practices around climate change in Australia, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and Denmark.

• 28 Nov. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #26: Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

  In this lecture, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard will present how Kalaallit artists, SoMe actors, and meme-makers employ playfulness as a transformative way to engage with the ‘unfinished business of decolonization’.

• 24 Nov. 2023, 16:15-18:30

  Commodity, Community, Urbanity

  13th Annual 4Cities Conference at the University of Copenhagen.

• 24 Nov. 2023, 13:00

  Breaking and Creating

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Terne Thorsen.

• 17 Nov. 2023, 9:30-17:30

  Decentring the museum for a postmigrant society

  This conference explored how contemporary curatorial and institutional practices can renegotiate identities, communities, and histories, and foster new forms of resistance as a response to the inequalities characterising a colonialist-capitalist world order.

• 31 Oct. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #25: Sarah Nagaty

  Lecture by Sarah Nagaty on The Egyptian Collective Dream.

• 6 Oct. 2023, 16:30

  Public Lecture on Popular Music

  Join us as esteemed NPR pop music critic Ann Powers and leading pop music scholar Eric Weisbard deliver the inaugural Public Lecture of the 2023-24 UCPH Musicology Fagligt Forum.

• 26 Sept. 2023, 17:00-19:30

  Forum Lectures #24: Nafiseh Mousavi

  This lecture addresses the social imaginations of ‘camp’, as contradictory spaces of control and care associated with refugee life and forced migration, in contemporary western comics.